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Severe: incapacitating with inability to do usual activities or significantly affects clinical status, and warrants intervention.
All items were coded in the same direction with the exception of item 9 "Able to do usual activities," was reverse-coded.
However, measuring fatigue in the course of chronic illness Chang and colleagues [ 11] used similar items for measuring depressive symptoms, e.g. questions about trouble starting activities, tiredness, fatigue or ability to do usual activities.
We found similar patterns for more specific health domains: ability to walk, self care, ability to do usual activities, pain, and anxiety/depression (results available from authors on request).
The PRWE usual activity focused on ability to do usual activities and was significant, although accounting for only 10% of the variance of the physical health model (R2 = 0.13) at one-week post injury.
The factorial structure of the FS-A was examined using exploratory factor analysis [ 25], and the results showed four underlying factors: (1) cognitive and physical weariness, (2) added effort and assistance needed to do usual activities, (3) needing rest and feeling angry and (4) avoiding social activities.
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Adverse events will be classified as: Mild: awareness of sign or symptom, but easily tolerated; Moderate: discomfort enough to cause interference with usual activity; Severe: incapacitating with inability to do usual activity.
Chi-square for trends revealed that patients who were subsequently able to take part in their chosen "usually enjoyed activity" at 12 months had less problems doing usual activities compared with those who were still unable to take part in the single activity (χ2 = 11.22, p = 0.001).
The degree of hip pain in Barnhöft was also compared with the item "doing usual activities" in EQ-5D-Y with a Spearman's correlation coefficient of 0.67.
It was noticed that severe pain affected the score for the function domain in Barnhöft and we therefore compared the degree of hip pain in Barnhöft with the item "doing usual activities" in EQ-5D-Y and found a Spearman's rank order correlation coefficient of 0.67.
We hypothesized that the pain domain of Barnhöft would have moderate to high (0.50 to 0.80) Spearman's rank order correlation coefficient values with the corresponding domain of pain in EQ-5D-Y [25] and that the degree of pain in Barnhöft would correlate to the score for possibility of doing usual activities in EQ-5D-Y.
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